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| Other authors / contributors: | Shugart, Matthew Soberg, 1960-
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| ISBN: | 9780511776298
0511776292
9780511773716
0511773714
9780511780882
0511780885
9780521869546
0521869544
9780521689687
0521689686
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and manage government power. When scholars first asserted the essential connection between parties and democracy, most of the world's democracies were parliamentary. Yet by the dawn of the twenty-first century, most democracies had directly elected presidents. David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide a theoretical framework for analyzing variation in the relationships among presidents, parties, and prime ministers across the world's democracies, revealing the important ways that the separation of powers alters party organization and behavior - thereby changing the nature of democratic representation and accountability.
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| Other form: | Print version: Samuels, David, 1967- Presidents, parties, and prime ministers. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521869546
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| Standard no.: | 9786612657948
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